Search for Higgs boson decays to beyond-the-Standard-Model light bosons in four-lepton events with the ATLAS detector at √s=13 TeV

The ATLAS collaboration

doi:10.1007/JHEP06(2018)166

Search for Higgs boson decays to beyond-the-Standard-Model light bosons in four-lepton events with the ATLAS detector at √s=13 TeV

The ATLAS collaboration

National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest
Dep Física and CEFITEC of Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
NOVA University Lisbon
National Center for Energy, Nuclear Science and Technology
CERN
Mohamed I University
Aix-Marseille Université
University of Oklahoma
Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
IN2P3/CNRS
University of Toronto
University of California at Santa Cruz
University of Sussex
Tel Aviv University
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
University of Oregon
Stockholm University
Oskar Klein Centre
National Institute for Nuclear Physics
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
King's College London
The University of Tokyo
AGH University of Krakow
Northern Illinois University
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
University of Belgrade
Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi
Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas
University of Granada
Boston University
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
University of Rome Tor Vergata
Kyoto University
Lund University
University of Geneva
P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
University of Bologna
University of Victoria BC
Universidad Nacional de La Plata
Radboud University Nijmegen
Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering
National Technical University of Athens
Czech Technical University in Prague

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Abstract

A search is conducted for a beyond-the-Standard-Model boson using events where a Higgs boson with mass 125 GeV decays to four leptons (ℓ = e or μ). This decay is presumed to occur via an intermediate state which contains one or two on-shell, promptly decaying bosons: H → ZX/XX → 4ℓ, where X is a new vector boson Z_d or pseudoscalar a with mass between 1 and 60 GeV. The search uses pp collision data collected with the ATLAS detector at the LHC with an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb⁻¹ at a centre-of-mass energy s=13 TeV. No significant excess of events above Standard Model background predictions is observed; therefore, upper limits at 95% confidence level are set on modelindependent fiducial cross-sections, and on the Higgs boson decay branching ratios to vector and pseudoscalar bosons in two benchmark models.[Figure not available: see fulltext.].

Original language	English
Article number	166
Journal	Journal of High Energy Physics
Volume	2018
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2018)166
State	Published - Jun 1 2018

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Beyond Standard Model
Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)

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Search for Higgs boson decays to beyond-the-Standard-Model light bosons in four-lepton events with the ATLAS detector at √s=13 TeV

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